Example sentences of "were [adj] [verb] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The analogy was there to draw between what they were prepared to do at home and what they might contemplate doing out of sight in a subjected territory . |
| 2 | Some conscripts were able to live at home for at least part of their service , reporting for duty at 5.30 a.m. and returning in the late afternoon — but usually only those who lived near a training depot had permission to commute to it . |
| 3 | David Raffe ( 11 ) of Edinburgh University found that more than three-quarters of school leavers from sparsely populated areas were able to live at home . |
| 4 | Only a small percentage of black children were able to remain at school beyond primary level . |
| 5 | Southport 's reply was never in any trouble and Swift ( 28no ) and Butler ( 70no ) were able to score at will . |